Silverton High School - Silvertonian Yearbook (Silverton, CO)

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Cla ffl' o y As the school doors opened in the fall of l9M3, Alice, Marlene, Vaughn, Thelma, Chas., and Jimmy were shoved into the first grade. The next year in the second grade, Darnall and Kathy entered ou: class. We spent most of our time bringing willows to Viss Holmes, tc dumb to realize what they were being used for. In the third grade we picked up Max and lost Kathy. We spent this year dodging erasers. fremember Mrs. Hamnonu?D The fourth grade was a quiet one. Mrs. Williams, at thattire Niss Bostick, frtsh from Vississippi. Kept us cuite interested with stories from the South. The fifth grade was also a quiet ye r, Urs. Rathmell kept us walking the chalk line. In the sixth, Chas left us for a year and Kathy came back only to leave at the end of that year. uk spent this year preparing ourselves for Junior High. This was the year! Je got to move upstairs. Boy, we thought we were wheels! We were proud to welcome Leita, Patty and Kathy into the eighth grade. This year we became members of S. H. Su and gained Tommy Sandell from Arkansas. The great day of initiation. The oirls wore gunny sack dresses and beer can necklaces. The boys wore skirts. le rcruooed the school bus with toothbrushes and we'll never forget Kangroo Court. The Sophomore year Eetty Anne entered our class., This year was a very interesting one. Ne had several parties at the Grand Imperial Hotel and had a spaghetti dinner at Thelma's house given by our sponsor, Mrs. Erickson. In our Junior year, we were really out to make the dough! First we gave our Junior Carnival, which went over very well, next we raffled a turkey and had a bake sale. Then came our class play,'Teter Bewaren, which went oyer with a big bang. After making all this money, we spent the biggest part of it on the Junior-Senior Prom and Banquet, which was the biggest success we could have hoped for. Our theme was the uStork Clubn and the banquet hall was decorated in pink and silver. The theme song was nThe Lullaby of Broadwayn. Now the biggest year of all has finally arrived. This.year we started out by going to Mesa Verde where we had a wonderful time. Ne then gave the Freshmen a party. We raffled a gun in October and the next month gave nNoonlight and Apolesaucen, our Senior Class Play. We had loads of fun practicing and it was a big hit. Ve are now waiting breatilessly for the night of graduation to come, although it will DO mighty sad to leave good old S. H. S. and our many friends still in school. We'll always treasure our memories of the wonderful times we've had in the halls and classrooms of the Silverton Public School, F

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file da P o flecy It is the year of our Lord, 1965, 10 years after the date of our graduation. We find our past classmates in many occupations and walks of life. It was on that famous and historic date, May 26, 1955, that we agreed to reunite and inform one another of our progress in this cold, cruel world. Mrs. George Slyvester Van Snoot III, formerly Toots Jenkins, tells us she has just returned from her trip around the world. During the cold winter months, she makes her home on the French Riveria and in the summer her home is in a cozy little cottage in the Swiss Alps. This is her third marriage. Jim Hill, Fish and Game Commissioner of Colorado, arrived late today, due to the fact that he was bringing a load of state-owned fish for our banquet tonight. He says he is well and happy and he has a paunch to prove it. P. S. As yet he isn't married. Coach and Mrs. Vaughn Larson, formerly Betty Anne Forbes, arrived early with their four year old quintupletsg which I might add,are world famous because they are all boys. It looks as if Vaughn, who is coaching at Colorado University, is raising his own ball club. Coming down the Durango road, we see a caravan of customised cars designed by Max Gurule, who started from scratch at Nick Heidy s ser- vice station. The Dean of Women of Stevens College for Women in Kansas City, Missouri, Patricia Brown, known better as Pat, has just arrived in the company of her chauffeur, Louis Smith I. She tells us she just re- ceived her promotion as-Dean from a Professor of English in that college. Mr. Darnall Zanoni has just arrived from his'art studio in Greenwich Village, where he has completed many great works of art and even ourmoaned the great Mona Lisa. He is accompanied by his model and fiancee. Mr. Charles McDonald has just arrived from Kentucky where he has just completed his training for the season. As you all know, he holds the world's record for having ridden seven consecutive winners in the Kentucky Derby. Mr. and Hrs. Robert Davis, Mrs. Davis, the former Kathy Kinter- knecht, have just driven up. Bob is now a five star general in the army. They have two darling children. The Davis family is doing fine. Miss Leita Joyner has just flown in from her home in Colorado Springs, where she is now residing at the Broadmoor Hotel. She has just f1n1d1ed her trip from around the world and tells us she is to be married in the spring. Miss Alice Peterson flew in from her home in New York City. She controls the chain of her famous drug stores. No doubt you have all sampled the luscious refreshments prepared and served only in Al1ce's places from coast to coast. Miss Earlene Clifford arrived from New York where she has just retired from modeling. She tells us she is going to marry her boss in the near future. DP. Thomas G. Sandell has arrived from Rochester, Minnesota where he is the top specialist at Mayo Dlinic. He is married to a retfred R. N., formerly Victoria Annet e Belfry. They have one child, a girl named Vicki Ann, and they appear to be very happy and content.